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Name: | Lynton Hill |
Hill number: | 17950 |
Height: | 318m / 1043ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2889 Dunkery Beacon |
RHB Section: | 40: Cornwall & Devon |
County/UA: | Devon |
Hill area: | Exmoor |
Catchment: | Minor Rivers only (South) |
Class: | Tump (300-399m) (Tu,3) |
Grid ref: | SS 70564 48591 |
Summit feature: | ground at wall junction |
Drop: | 52m |
Col: | 266m SS700475 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 180 (1:25k) OL9W |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 19 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
Parked at Valley of Rocks car park (chargeable 10:00 to 18:00) for a circuit of 4 Tumps. 1/4. ROW to Lydiate Lane, then along field boundaries via trig. Onwards to The Balls. | PGCE | 14/12/2022 |
In dark and rain, also visited the trig. Level area at field junction. | Denise | 25/10/2020 |
First the summit then the trig point in last of the daylight. | RichardM | 25/10/2020 |
As jonglew. Pleasant easy pasture. | Campbell Singer | 20/10/2019 |
From east via trig to HP, back through gate to road | PeterD | 20/04/2019 |
Roadside verge parking on Lydiate Lane (SS 7039 4812). Over a field gate at SS 7042 4820. | jonglew | 29/03/2019 |
Easy parking to the NE at the car park at the entrance to the Valley of the Rocks. Good path uphill, first SE then NW up to the top of the cliff. Followed edge of the open access down to the bit that jutts out. Across field to the summit. | moorsman | 06/08/2018 |
With Caleb | simon and co | 28/07/2017 |
From S, didn't revisit trig pillar. | RHW | 03/04/2015 |
Came in on minor road to SW via Dean after having lunch at the Valley Of Rocks before a TB DRF visit to a farm near Combe Martin. A quick dash to high point and then the nearby trig. | Dugswell2 | 21/03/2012 |
Matt | 07/07/2022 | |
mcbiydw2 | 27/07/2021 | |
Adrian | 29/03/2019 | |
mnixon | 23/08/2017 | |
stevent0809 | 26/02/2016 | |
asbown | 17/07/2013 | |
Dusty | 10/07/2009 | |
andrew.allum | 01/01/2000 | |
IainT | 26/11/1998 |